Banana Cake Recipe That's Better Than Sara Lee's - Glen And Friends Cooking
A childhood favourite of Glen's was the Sara Lee Banana Cake... Then they stopped selling it in Canada, and that set him off on a lifelong journey to replicate the Sara Lee Banana Cake Recipe from scratch. Trying to come up with a copycat Sara Lee Banana Cake recipe took some time, but the real secret is in the banana cream cheese frosting. Get ready for one of the best banana cake with cream cheese frosting recipes you've ever made.

Ingredients
625 mL (2 ½ cups) flour
10 mL (2 tsp) baking soda
1 mL (¼ tsp) coarse salt
125 mL (½ cup) butter
250 mL (1 cup) sugar
175 mL (¾ cup) packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
5 mL (1 tsp) vanilla extract
150 mL (⅔ cup) buttermilk
4 medium-size ripe bananas, peeled and mashed
Fresh juice from ½ lemon

Frosting
60 mL (¼ cup) butter, softened
60 mL (¼ cup) cream cheese, softened
1 mashed banana
45 mL (3 Tbsp) banana saccharum
Fresh juice from ½ lemon
2 mL (½ tsp) vanilla extract
875 mL (3 ½ cups) +/- icing sugar


Method
Preheat oven to 180ºC (350°F.)
Line a 13x9” baking pan with a parchment sling
Using an electric mixer on medium speed, cream butter, sugar, flour, baking soda and salt.
Beat together eggs, brown sugar, vanilla extract, buttermilk, and bananas.
Stir this mixture into the flour mixture along with the lemon juice.
Transfer into a prepared baking pan and bake 35-40, minutes.
Allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes, before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Frosting:
In an electric mixer, whip butter, cream cheese, banana, banana saccharum and lemon juice on medium speed until well combined.
Slowly add icing sugar until a smooth consistency is reached.



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